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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period Japan—and portrays the city that would become Tokyo on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to ...